Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music Therapy
In this article, I suggest that a provisional paradigm shift from disability as pathology to disability as neurodiversity has the potential to productively resituate the epistemological orientations of music therapy, both as a field of inquiry and a domain of practice. I draw from my own work on the...
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GAMUT - Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (NORCE & University of Bergen)
2014-10-01
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| description | In this article, I suggest that a provisional paradigm shift from disability as pathology to disability as neurodiversity has the potential to productively resituate the epistemological orientations of music therapy, both as a field of inquiry and a domain of practice. I draw from my own work on the ethnomusicology of autism, as well as from research and writings in disability studies and autistic self-advocacy, in proposing that the relativistic foundations of ethnomusicology offer a potentially useful alternative and complement to the principally treatment-directed foundations of music therapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-337fd0e4a9974c6ebabc8da01c8e508b2022-12-21T22:49:24ZengGAMUT - Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (NORCE & University of Bergen)Voices1504-16112014-10-0114310.15845/voices.v14i3.799Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music TherapyMichael B. Bakan0College of Music, Florida State UniversityIn this article, I suggest that a provisional paradigm shift from disability as pathology to disability as neurodiversity has the potential to productively resituate the epistemological orientations of music therapy, both as a field of inquiry and a domain of practice. I draw from my own work on the ethnomusicology of autism, as well as from research and writings in disability studies and autistic self-advocacy, in proposing that the relativistic foundations of ethnomusicology offer a potentially useful alternative and complement to the principally treatment-directed foundations of music therapy.https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/2220Autismautism spectrumAsperger's syndromeneurodiversityautistic self-advocacyethnomusicology |
| spellingShingle | Michael B. Bakan Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music Therapy Voices Autism autism spectrum Asperger's syndrome neurodiversity autistic self-advocacy ethnomusicology |
| title | Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music Therapy |
| title_full | Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music Therapy |
| title_fullStr | Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music Therapy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music Therapy |
| title_short | Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music Therapy |
| title_sort | ethnomusicological perspectives on autism neurodiversity and music therapy |
| topic | Autism autism spectrum Asperger's syndrome neurodiversity autistic self-advocacy ethnomusicology |
| url | https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/2220 |
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